Category: Annual Countdown

Our second full calendar year being active was a fun one! We’ve gained a lot of recognition in Toronto’s local Hip-Hop scene, made great connections, and most importantly covered a lot of concerts this year (one more than last year!). I want to thank all the promoters and local artists who made it easier for me…

Greetings! I know I’ve missed out on a bunch of concert reviews in December (including Vince Staples & Mac Miller), but I’ve still been pretty busy! If you didn’t notice, I’ve changed the entire layout of the site and added a new header photo using pics from some of the shows I’ve been to over…

I’d like to thank everyone who’s supported this blog and anyone who has ever read any of my articles! This is the first full calendar year I’ve had SYpherSights running, so this time I have concert reviews written for every show on the list. While I couldn’t attend every single hip-hop show in the city,…

Happy Holidays to all! For those who couldn’t keep up with the daily countdown, I have all of the entries listed below. Click on the albums to read the reviews! Also look out for my Top Concerts of the Year list dropping on New Years Eve! Honourable Mentions #20 Ab-Soul – These Days… (B-) #19 Joell…

*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* Much like the cover art suggests, Killer Mike & El-P just stole the spotlight when they dropped the sequel to their very successful Run The Jewels album. Everything was awesome…

*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* Those who checked out my PRhyme review on CulturedVultures.com knew this was coming. DJ Premier is considered by most to be an all-time hip-hop legend, and Royce Da 5’9″ is…

*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* This album came out of nowhere and rocked my summer. Sometime in the first or second quarter of the year it was announced that underground hip-hop veteran Murs had signed…

*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* In Death Reborn is the first wave of attack Army of the Pharaohs cast on hip-hop this year, as they released this album in April and then Heavy Lies The…

*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* After last year’s very successful Constant Energy Struggles, Ces Cru is keeping up the momentum with their second album on Strange Music, Codename: Ego Stripper. Some might see the word…

*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* *Click here to go back to #10* Timing is everything; this album may not have had the impact of some of the previous entries on the countdown, but it was the soundtrack to my whole summer. As…

*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* I know, this isn’t a hip-hop album. Linkin Park is one of the few rock bands I really love, and there is enough hip-hop influence here for my regular readers, but more on that later. While their…

*Click here to go back to the beginning of the countdown* *Click here to go back to #15* Heavy Lies The Crown is the most recent of two albums Army of the Pharaohs released in 2014, and sixth album overall. Since the last time I wrote about them, the roster has mostly remained the same,…